Catastrophe & Restoration

A majority of consumers prefer hearing from their service providers through e-mail compared with social media platforms.

Autonomous vehicles, industry technology and workplace violence are among the topics for the ACE conference, June 22-24.

President Obama is asking the private sector to tighten building standards to reduce losses from natural disasters after studies linked an increase in extreme weather to climate change.

Intact Financial Corp. said it will post insured losses of as much as $850 million from the wildfires in Alberta, which may dent the Canadian economy harder than Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S.

Cooler temperatures are helping fire fighters battle wildfires raging through Alberta as the blaze retreats from the countrys main oil-sands facilities around Fort McMurray.

Drones will soon be boosting crop yields, verifying insurance claims, and assisting in future Hollywood blockbusters in a business thats due to boom by more than 6,000% by the end of the decade.